Tightrope

critic Reviews

, 86% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Nick SchagerLessons of Darkness
    A surprisingly tightly wound serial killer mystery.
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    Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times
    Tightrope may appeal to the Dirty Harry fans, with its sex and violence. But it's a lot more ambitious than the Harry movies, and the relationship between Eastwood and Bujold is more interesting than most recent male-female relationships in the movie.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Nick RogersMidwest Film Journal
    Perhaps the reason why "Tightrope" remains Clint Eastwood’s only film yet to reckon with the cop construct he had enshrined onscreen is because it remains exhaustively effective 40 years later.
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    David ElliottCopley News Service
    On an action fan's gut level, I like Eastwood. There's no other star who can pull off tense, John Wayneish moments so well.
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    Dennis SchwartzDennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
    A sharp-edged slightly offbeat crime thriller for the masses.
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    Jon NiccumLawrence Journal-World
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    Chuck O'LearyFantastica Daily
    Eastwood took a chance at the height of his stardom to play a less-than-heroic cop in this gutsy serial-killer thriller.
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    Emanuel LevyEmanuelLevy.Com
  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Pablo VillaçaCinema em Cena
    Eastwood cria um personagem complexo e interessante, mas os elementos policiais da trama, aliados ao ritmo frouxo da histria, prejudicam seus esforos.
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    Steve CrumKansas City Kansan
    Fine later Eastwood starrer